Smedley Butler

War In The 21st Century

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warKatherine Frisk – As a child we used to play a game called: “I declare war on…”

In those days players would divide up a circle drawn on the ground into however many players there were, and each person would choose a country. The object of the exercise was for the winner to take the whole circle, dominating the world and winning the game. If you had to play that game today, players would not pick a country, they would pick a billionaire, a corporation or a bank.

The world is no longer ruled by governments and consensus reached by voters who put those governments into power. Today the world is ruled by a handful of billionaires who own and control the major corporations and banks. Their objectives are not only to dominate the whole world, but to own it.

This extends to all life forms and food sources where they are now patenting seeds and animal DNA and will in the future be able to sue you for any propagation or breeding due to breach of copyright. Weather control and modification technology is another tool in their arsenal. They will literally own the weather and charge you for it. These elite groups cross cultural, racial and religious lines, they are multi racial and multi cultural,  and although they might profess to be from any one of the world’s assortment of religions, they are charlatans merely posing for marketing purposes. Continue reading →

Trillions for Wars, None For Cancer Stricken Children

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Activist Post February 11 2013

Team cures cancer with innovative treatment, child-patients stuck with staggering bills.

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Image: US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler was a two-time Medal of Honor recipient, and anti-war. He wrote “War is a Racket.” Despite the torrent of pro-war propaganda we are bombarded with, and all the pretexts and excuses used to sell endless global conflict, it is indeed a racket perpetrated by big-business interests at the rest of humanity’s expense, and has been for a long time.

In “On the Cusp of Ending Big Pharma,” a coming revolution in biology and medicine made possible by a better understanding of genetics and gene therapy was described in detail. Almost as if to validate the premise of having the public begin getting directly involved in not only understanding genetics and gene therapy, but begin building the infrastructure at a local level to pursue research and development, as well as implement eventual techniques and treatments, Philly.com has just recently published a follow up to an incredible story.

Titled, “Girl’s gene-therapy estimate gives Children’s Hospital a shiner,” the article describes a clinical trial in which gene therapy was used to treat 10 adults and 2 children suffering from cancer, most of whom have had their cancer go into remission, and the staggering bills the treatment incurred. Charities and insurance assisted at least one patient, while another, a 5-year-old Croatian girl, was left with a $837,000 bill.

Medical care is expensive. It requires the absolute cutting edge in technology, skilled doctors and technicians to utilize it in the care of patients, all within an economic paradigm where demand vastly outnumbers supply. What could be done to reduce the disparity between supply and demand? And what can be done until then to ensure people get the absolute best treatment possible? Or should a 5 year old girl perish because she can’t afford experimental treatment when all other options were sure to fail?

Trillions for War…

Soldiers fighting the fruitless decade long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t need to buy their own weapons, procure their own transportation to the warzone, buy their own meals, and when they were injured, pay for their own medical treatment. Indeed, these fruitless wars built openly on categorically false premises, were subsidized by trillions of dollars from American tax payers despite the wars having no public support. Since these two fruitless wars sold upon a pack of lies, the United States has conducted combat operations in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Uganda, inside Pakistan, Mali, and covertly in Iran. Again, subsidized by trillions of tax payer dollars.

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